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***BIO*** I listen to Wilco more than my wife or conscience. I've had
poems recently appear in The Foliate Oak, Red Fez, Word Riot, decomP and
others. No one is buying let alone reading my novel The Trinity and there is
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A Present Without Guts
by David LaBounty
every year it's
scented candles
and slippers and
every year my wife
pecks me on the
cheek and says thank you
and every year I
regret not having
the balls to buy
something bigger
and better and
badder so this year
I went to one of
those lingerie shops
in the mall and I
was going to buy
something slutty
and hot for my
wife because she
is hot and I was
pounced on by young
girls wearing headsets
and sweaters
and I stammered for
a moment not sure
how to ask for what
I wanted.

so I didn't.

I didn't and I drove home
clutching slippers and
candles with wax
that will never

ever

melt.
Feb. 2008
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